Media Thread - 2021/22

[cashmereundies]

Must be an age thing, Trevor Cherry scored for Leeds in that seasons 5th round of the FA cup at Elland rd.

 

[KS55]

They cannot have it both ways, Uefa set out to destroy our club with printed out on A4 hacked information. Could you imagine the uproar if they had used illegally obtained information to nail Liverpool supporters for their alleged behaviour in Paris?

There is one rule for them and one rule for us, and that’s not to mention their ex chief exec leaking information to the press of what he thought the outcome would be.

Just for the record:
UEFA did not use the emails; they used Der Speigel‘s “reproduction” of the emails since found to have been manipulated.

 

[KS55]

Not even UEFA (who have checked our audited accounts for 14 years) have alleged City are "state-owned." This claim by Matt Hughes can be checked on Google within 30 seconds. We are very transparent about our ownership structure. These claims by the Daily Mail fit the perfect definition of fake news. Hughes appears to be a moron who doesn't know the difference between the Abu Dhabi Investment Fund (Sovereign Wealth Fund) and the Abu Dhabi United Group (owned by Sheikh Mansour) Perhaps, like others at the Mail, he has a problem with the ethnicity of our owner. After all "they all look the same don't they."

No excuse now. ADUG no longer own any CFG shares. The shares are owned by a company with a different name (see our accounts) but I dont know whether this is just a change of name or whether the sheik has hived CFG shares into a separate fund.

 

[Gray]

As usual all our players want to leave whilst players from other clubs are queuing up to join the two twats who play in red.

 

[jamielowndes]

No excuse now. ADUG no longer own any CFG shares. The shares are owned by a company with a different name (see our accounts) but I dont know whether this is just a change of name or whether the sheik has hived CFG shares into a separate fund.

The new company is entirely owned by Mansour as per CFGs site.

 

[KS55]

Matt Hughes: "City are the only club other than Newcastle to benefit from state ownership, with Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund owning 78 per cent."

It frustrates the life out of me when they come out with shit like this but for the sake of accuracy remember 2 things:

i) there are 2 SWFs - Abu Dhabi Investment Authority assets c $820 billion and Mubadala assets c $240 billion.

ii) from July 2021, CFG’s ultimate parent undertaking is Newton Investment and Development LLC, a company registered in Abu Dhabi and also wholly owned by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan - so not a SWF :)

Minority shareholdings in Newton are Silver Lake with 14.54% and China Media Capital with 8.24%

Correct. Do you know whether ADUG has simply changed its name or there has been some hiving off of CFG shares? Is it now the case that Newton is the parent company of all of CFG or just Mansour’s holding?
PS. I had missed the post from City about Newton. Is it technically correct?

 

[oakiecokie]

I'm so bored with the USA.

I feel a song coming on :
"Bored in the USA ..."

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Time to put a full stop to this sort of stuff.

Agreed I'm nearly comma-tose now.

 

[KS55]

The new company is entirely owned by Mansour as per CFGs site.

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Thanks. If the new company is wholly owned by Mansour, it just takes the place of ADUG and the post by City is incorrect.

 

[Blue Mist]

I'm slightly confused, was it a bad thing when Italians(?) owned Witherslack or is it only the case now that Arabs own it? I presume Nicky boy had already written an expose on them?

Lesson No. 42. Italians are white, (sort off) therefore good
Arabs are a) illegal North african immigrants terrorising scousers
b) grinning beards
c) terrorists.